A Solid Foundation

Colossians1:4 "Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus,and of the love which ye have to all saints"
(read 1:3-8)

This is a powerful scripture that covers the great pillars of the christian life,the pillars of faith and love. And these pillars are the foundation by which the believers are held up.For God is love and without faith it is impossible to please God.We should be thankful to God for faith and love.

The great pillar of faith. Faith is one person,the person of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.Jesus brings us in touch  with God and makes it possible for God to adopt us as sons and daughters of His. Jesus Christ is able to bring any person who is spiritually fatherless to His Father.Jesus Christ has the right to ask His Father to adopt the fatherless person.Jesus makes the Father-son relationship possible between God and the believer.The believer then lives by faith in Christ.He believes in Christ;therefore he lives by his belief.He governs his life by Christ.He does nothing that his faith in Christ forbids.He lives, moves, and has his being in Christ.His faith in Christ becomes one of the great pillars of his life. He walks by his faith in Christ, and not by the things he sees in the world.

Then there is the great pillar of love.Now we are not talking about the natural love we are to have for all mankind.This pillar of love, is love believers have one for another.This love is based on  the love of Jesus Christ,and His love is the summit of Love.He proved it in His sacrificial death for men.He laid down his life before God to bear the sins of man.So when we give our life to follow Christ we are giving ourselves to love as he loved,we must be willing to sacrifice ourselves for others as Christ did for us."Presenting our bodies a living sacrifice".This love is stirred by the Holy spirit;That is the believers love is a supernatural love.The Holy spirit which lives in the heart of the believer,stirs up the love of God in the heart of the believer,and we are led to love others by the spirit of God.Believers possess a great love for all men,I mean the very love of Christ.But we have a special love for fellow believers.Because we have committed ourselves to follow the Lord,we are led by the same spirit and hold to the same hope.We all live and move in our faith and love for Christ, the pillars of our Christian life.